Central European U. Press

A bibliography of East European travel writing on Europe.

Bracewell (history, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, U. College London) and Drace-Francis (history, U. of Liverpool) and their 15 contributors have written a study of travel writing published in book form by East Europeans traveling in Europe from 1550 to 2000. While there are numerous such texts, many of them well- written and historically interesting, the body of work has been largely overlooked as a genre worthy of study. Because much of the material is now rare or simply hard to find, few bibliographical surveys of this kind have been written. This collection brings together writings within each national and linguistic tradition to enable researchers to conduct comparative analysis of the material. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

The Romanov empire and nationalism; essays in the methodology of historical research.

Miller (history, Central European U. and Russian Academy of Sciences) thought he was through with the nationalism question after his 2000 book on the Ukraine. Well, an article here and there could mop remaining questions, or new issues that popped up, or the odd not correction, exactly, but clarification perhaps. Then one day a colleague asked the title of the new book that all these chapters were for. He surrendered, revised the articles into chapters, and added new ones to smooth over the coverage. Still, he warns, the book is less solidly united than if the whole had preceded its parts. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Uranium matters; Central European uranium in international politics, 1900-1960.

The Erzgebirge region on the border of Czechoslovakia and East Germany was the site of the oldest uranium mine in the world and as such was key to the Soviet Union's efforts to gain nuclear parity with the United States. Zeman (emeritus, European history, Oxford U., UK) and Karlsch (economic history, Homboldt U., Germany) describe the impact of the nuclear politics of the Cold War on this region politically, economically, and environmentally. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)